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Hauptmann The Island of the Great Mother Secker · 1925

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The Island of the Great Mother

Gerhart Hauptmann
Secker, London · 1925

First Edition. First UK edition of this celebrated Hauptmann novel translated by Edwin and Willa Muir. First issue two-tone cloth lettered in gilt.

Vague soiling and scuffing but quite sound and very clean internally.

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AuthorHauptmann, Gerhart
PublisherSecker, London
Date1925
EditionFirst Edition
BindingHardcover
ConditionGood
Stock referenceab_139756754

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